Pracownia Działań Przestrzennych
Studio of Spatial Activities

3-channel video installation, oyster shells, 2018

Defence: 27.09.2018, Komputer Gallery in Warsaw

In Warsaw, on the East bank of the Vistula, across the river from the Museum of Modern Art an investment Port Praski (in English: Praga Harbour) is being realised. Between 1885-2012 the area served as a harbour, which was surrounded by rather poor tenement buildings and a green wasteland, there was a slaughterhouse, too. The ambitious emerging housing development should change the place’s aura for a European-class district (the architects even refer to the City of London).

The investment cannot be finished until a water lock is built. In our installation, we would like to touch upon Port Praski and point out to the lock’s function - as a mechanism that changes level of something that goes through it.

For the exposition, we chose a room that contained different levels itself. The space was located in the vicinity of Port Praski.